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Appreciating the uniquely delicious feeling of the last time
Extreme sports, kitesurfing, wingfoiling, paragliding, intuition, fear, closing chapters consciously, and creating a relationship with death
Jul 30, 2022
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How physical fitness supports my creativity and my work as a writer
How physical fitness at age 53 supports my creativity and my work as a writer—with pilates, body weight conditioning, calisthenics, trail running…
Feb 14, 2023
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E16 / Sky Racing and Self Expression with Galen Kirkpatrick
Listen now (77 mins) | Free flight as self-expression and as a higher project. Managing risk. Gender euphoria and the responsibility of coming out…
Feb 20, 2023
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Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
Mar 25, 2023
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How I confused "discipline" with getting told what to do, and learned to love self-discipline
Redefining discipline—from someone else's bullshit story about something you can never have enough of, to something that comes from inside oneself, and…
Jan 17, 2023
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E09 / The Adventure of Young Fatherhood with Noah Rainey
Listen now (52 mins) | A commitment to joy and fun, the power of invitation, embodied virtues, exploring the territory of fear, unexpected fatherhood…
Oct 31, 2022
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Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
Sep 2, 2023
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What I'm Reading, Nov 2022
Maia Szalavitz, Liz Goldwyn, John Paul Brammer, Tim Kreider, Holly Whitaker, Connor Beaton / Mantalks, Bill Maeda, Jamie Wheal, and Bill McKibben on why…
Nov 26, 2022
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Why I No Longer Cringe at Being Called a "Kitesurfer"
...and how I've gotten to be OK with playing outdoors
Aug 18, 2022
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Who Holds You?
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 26 — Who Holds You?
Aug 2, 2023
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The Keys to Building Real Community
Think of the 🤍 button as "would you recommend this to a friend?"
Feb 22, 2023
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How to eat the question when someone asks "What's next?"—or anything else, for that matter.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 21 — Eat the Question
Jun 21, 2023
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